18/01/2022
GOOD MORNING SAINTS
CHRISTOCENTRIC MEAL DR ABEL DAMINA JANUARY 18
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YOU HAVE WHATSOEVER YOU SAY (4)
The believer must know how to use what he has in Christ,
1st Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
Paul’s reason for teaching was so that the believer would not be ignorant of, or be in the dark about what he has in Christ.
He is to be taught so he can be effective in it.
This was the nature of Paul’s writings, severally he used the
phrase: know ye not...
Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized
into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Vs 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
1st Corinthians 6:15 Know ye notthat your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
Vs 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
The Epistles were written to men who had believed the Gospel to the end that they would know what they have, and then be effective in it.
Jesus describes how the faith of God works?
Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
He placed emphasis on the word SAY. He mentioned 3 times, while “believing” was mentioned once.
An important emphasis he places is on saying; to say. Hence how the faith of God works is to say.
In the original Greek text of the Bible, the word SAY has different applications in this text:
1. For whosoever shall say to this mountain...
2. and shall believe that those things which he saith...
3. he shall have whatsoever he saith
The first use of the word say means to command. It describes the use of authority; to exercise a privilege. In that text, Jesus was actually speaking about authority; the believer’s authority.
Paul in Ephesians 1 describes the Believer’s authority.
Ephesians 1:16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
Vs 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Vs 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Vs 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Vs 20: Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Vs 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Vs 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Vs 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Verse 19 above is the greatest concentration of adjectives used for the description of God’s power,
Certain words are used to describe this power:
- Exceeding
-Greatness
-Power
-Working
-Mighty power
The word, “exceeding” means to throw beyond target. It was used in the following texts.
1st Corinthians 3:10,
2nd Corinthians 9:14,
Ephesians 2:7
The word “Greatness” was only used once in the New Testament books of the bible; in the Ephesians 1:17. It describes magnitude.
The word “power” means strength.
It is also used in
Romans 1:16,
1st Corinthians1:18 and Ephesians 3:20.
The word, “working” implies efficiency, that which is effective, working.
It was also used in Ephesians 3:7 and Ephesians 4:16.
The word, “mighty” means ability; strength.
It was also used in
Mark 12:30 and 1st Peter 4:11.
The second use of the word “power” in that text means dominion, vigour.
It was used in Ephesians 6:10 and Colossians 1:11.
Where was that power demonstrated?
Ephesians 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Vs 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
In Christ. His feet in context, is the Church; His body
Ephesians 5:29,
1st Corinthians 12:12, 27.
This is therefore to describe the believer’s identification with Christ in his resurrection and exaltation to the right hand of the father, the authority of the believer.
Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened ustogether with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Vs 6 And hath raised us uptogether, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Notice the emphasis – together
This is the present-day reality of our identification with Christ. We are identified in his resurrection, we rose with him and have been made to sit with / in him at the Father’s right hand.
Paul thus explained in Ephesians 3:20 states that this power is at work in every believer.
The father’s right hand is the believers’ authority
The term “Right Hand” was used in: Genesis 35:18 & Genesis 41:38-44 (Pharaoh and Joseph).
The Right Hand has to do with a place of authority, it speaks of a REGENT, describing one who takes the place of a king in his absence. However, there is one who is not subject to the regent and that is the king.
Jesus is at the Right Hand of the Father hence everything is under Him but God.
John 5:22-27,
Matthew 28:18-20,
this happened at the resurrection.
Hence, the authority Jesus had in the Epistles different from that in the four Gospels Philippians 2:9-10. After his resurrection, He became Lord,
Hebrews 1:3 When Jesus rose from the dead, He sat at the Right Hand, referring to his exaltation.
Hebrews 10:12-14,
Colossians 3:1,
Hebrews 8:1,
Hebrews 12:2,
Romans 8:29
Hebrews 1:6
He rose as the first begotten from the dead.
He brought many sons unto glory Hebrews 2:9-11
The believer by identification also has this authority.The efficient, mighty, dynamic, operational power of God is now located in the believer.
He therefore has the responsibility to put the faith he has received to work, acknowledge the authority he has received, and thus express it in his words. He would say (command, instruct by speaking) and he would have whatsoever that he says.
CONFESSION: I have the power of God at work in me. I have been raised with Christ, I am seated in him, exalted , I have the believer’s authority, I use my faith, I put it to words, and I have whatsoever that I say.
